Dashboard Confessional

Led by singer, songwriter and musician Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional began as a side project in 1999 intending to be a solo project for Chris. Now, joined by John Lefler, Scott Schoenbeck and Mike Marsh, Dashboard Confessional has released singles, EPs and albums some of which have been certified Gold.

After recording an EP (Drowning), Carrabba released his debut full-length The Swiss Army Romance in 2000. Carrabba’s acoustic yearnings found a home with the punk and indie rock crowd. A year of constant touring led to bigger shows, better opening slots and the sense that something bigger was coming.

With 2001’s The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most on Vagrant, a more mainstream crowd started to take notice. “Screaming Infidelities” became a much talked-about anthem and 2002 saw Dashboard garner a much-coveted Moonman for MTV2 Artist of the Year. More importantly, it opened up a wider audience for Dashboard. MTV commissioned an Unplugged special, and later released it as a live album. The resulting CD/DVD, titled simply MTV Unplugged V2.0, went platinum.

With the release of their fourth full-length album Dusk and Summer, the group is no longer simply an up-and-coming band. Dusk is certainly the most defining album of what has already been a remarkable career; on one end, it's a return to the full band sound of Carrabba's earliest, pre-Dashboard work, and yet also the most forward-thinking and innovative record he's ever recorded.